This four week course focuses on migrating workloads to AWS. We will focus on analyzing your current environment, planning your migration, AWS services that are commonly used during your migration, and the actual migration steps.
Hands-on labs are available, though not required for this class. Access to the labs is limited to paid enrolled students. You can audit this course without taking the labs. As we dive into each of the services covered in this class, there will be links to documentation where you can find example applications and code samples.
If you are new to AWS, we strongly suggest that you take “AWS Fundamentals: Going Cloud Native” (https://www.coursera.org/learn/aws-fundamentals-going-cloud-native) course available on Coursera to provide an introduction to AWS concepts and services.

Impartido por:

Seph Robinson

Sean Rinn

Transcripción

- [Seph] We've spent the past several weeks talking about the importance of planning and analyzing your migration, looking at services that can help during different phases of your migration, and even briefly discussed some of the AWS tools and partners that can help with the full migration. That final topic is where I want to focus in this video. When migrating large enterprise applications, in all reality, it's going to be better to utilize a third party for your migration. One of the reasons for this is simply the level of knowledge needed. It's a lot to ask of people internally tasked with migration to become experts in all of the services they're going to be using. The steep learning curve to go from novice to expert can be overwhelming, and mistakes are easily made. With AWS partners, they have built the knowledge up over years of experience working with and helping other customers migrate to AWS. And that brings us to another reason: experience. AWS partners aren't working on their first migration but have been doing migrations and consulting for a while. They have been hands-on, have seen a wide variety of scenarios and use cases, and can offer solid advice with other questions you may have around migrating your applications. And lastly, AWS partners often help to provide faster migration timelines than would be possible if you had to learn, evaluate, and test the services while also trying to analyze your infrastructure and plan your migration needs and steps. When it comes to crucial or large applications and environments, we highly recommend looking to an AWS partner to help. It is still important for you to learn about what they are doing, and the services involved, in order to be able to ask the right questions and easily get going once migrated. But the partners themselves can help greatly with the actual migrations you need to do. The course notes will have linked to our partner page. I highly recommend you look through these to help you identify when you might need a partner, the options you have, and which partners might work best for your needs.